A water basin fixed to a wall or floor and having a drainpipe and generally a piped supply of water. A cesspool. A sinkhole. A natural or artificial means of absorbing or removing a substance or a form of energy from a system. A place regarded as wicked and corrupt: That city is a sink of corruption. Origin of sink
Card shark, especially in American English,is often simply a term for someone who spends a lot of time playing cards. Both terms are sometimes hyphenated, and theyâre sometimes condensed into a single compound wordâcardsharp or cardshark. But the two-word, unhyphenated forms are more common in edited publications.
On the 1970s and 1980s network editions of Card Sharks, and for the first four weeks of the 1986 syndicated series, each game win was worth $100 for the contestants, with the first player to win two games winning the match and playing the Money Cards bonus round.